Fr Jdas Quotes & Sayings

You know,' Russell said, 'we could have beaten John Kennedy on civil rights, but not Lyndon Johnson.' There was a pause. A man was perhaps contemplating the end of a way of life he cherished. He was perhaps contemplating the fact that he had played a large role - perhaps the largest role - in raising to power the man who was going to end that way of life. But when, a moment later, Richard Russell spoke again, it was only to repeat the remark. 'We could have beaten Kennedy on civil rights, but we can't Lyndon. — Robert A. Caro

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. — Princess Diana

I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore. — Jim Shaw

I try to use my music to move these people to act. — Jimi Hendrix

Because you didn't and someone did, and that has made all the difference! So either have the courage to ask her out prior, or have the decency to watch her with someone else. — Sarvesh Jain

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me. — Sylvia Plath

Rhett, do you really
is it to protect me that you
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"Yes, my dear, it is my much advertised chivalry that makes me protect you." The mocking light began to dance in his black eyes and all signs of earnestness fled from his face. "And why? Because of my deep love for you, Mrs. Kennedy. Yes, I have silently hungered and thirsted for you and worshipped you from afar; but being an honorable man, like Mr. Ashley Wilkes, I have concealed it from you. You are, alas, Frank's wife and honor has forbidden my telling this to you. But even as Mr. Wilkes' honor cracks occasionally, so mine is cracking now and I reveal my secret passion and my
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"Oh, for God's sake, hush!" interrupted Scarlett, annoyed as usual when he made her look like a conceited fool, and not caring to have Ashley and his honor become the subject of further conversation. "What was the other thing you wanted to tell me?"
"What! You change the subject when I am baring a loving but lacerated heart? — Margaret Mitchell

Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got? — Marcus Sakey

There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics. — Ivar Giaever

We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had. — Dana Reinhardt

Right. So you haven't been spending every spare hour round at geeky and slaphead's, then?"
"Don't call them that. They have names." Although privately I had my own names for them: octopus and trouser python. — Josephine Myles

Be simple and sincere. — Sathya Sai Baba